Ghostscripted: How 4chan Got Haunted by 2012 Tech

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It seems 4CHAN was hacked based on outdated systems such as 2012 (maybe 2016) PHP and OPENBSD (2017).

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Sounds like they could have prevented the hack by either:

  • disabling PDF upload (nobody used that feature anyway), or
  • running freebsd-update fetch install && pkg update && pkg upgrade at some point in the last 10 years.

And they still failed.

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Yes it seems they missed badly on the updates and seems like the community had also warned them back in 2021 but they still did not listen. 100% preventable from this particular attack